Slavery Debate
The favoring of interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
A plan to divide the remaining Louisiana purchase into two territories.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Abraham Lincoln was the first to run for president for this party.
What is the Republican Party?
Lincoln only won states from this geographical region.
What is the north?
A slave who sued the government for his freedom based on the once-free-always-free clause.
Who was Dred Scott?
When people of a state or territory vote on if they were going to have slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
Where John Brown and his sons killed 5 pro-slavery men with broadswords.
What is the Potawatomi Massacre?
The name of the new country the south would create.
What is the Confederate States of America? (Confederacy)
Where John Brown attacked a federal arsenal.
What is Harpers Ferry?
Defeated Lincoln for the Illinois senate seat and came up with the idea of popular sovereignty .
Who was Stephan Douglas?
Made it a crime to help a runaway slave and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free-areas.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
After Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, many southerners sent Brooks these.
What are canes?
Gave Lincoln fame that he would need to get elected as president.
What is the Lincoln- Douglas Debates?
The last event that caused the south to secede.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
His view was not to end slavery instead, leave it alone where it existed but do not allow it to expand.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A bill that would ban slavery in all new U.S. states & territories.
What is the Wilmott Proviso?
Group of southerners who went to Kansas to inflict violence.
Who were boarder ruffians?
Ruled that people who are black had no federal rights, abolished the once-free-always-free clause, and made it so slavery would be allowed in every state.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
To save the union, John J. Crittenden comes up with an idea to change this document to make southerners stay.
What is the constitution?
The first (and only) president of the Confederate States of America?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The author of the slave narrative, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The town that was sieged by southerners.
What is Lawrence, Kansas?
The 3rd party that participated in the election of 1860.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
The first state to secede the union.
What is South Carolina?
Elected for president mainly because of his support of the compromise of 1850.
Who is Franklin Pierce?